CHEMICAL WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 5

CHEMICAL WORKERS

STRIKE STILL CONTINUES

(By Telegraph—Press Association, i AUCKLAND. July 3. No change has taken place in the situation between the employers and workers at the chemical manure works in Otahuhu, Westfield. and Te Papapa., where a strike has been in progress for a. week. There are no negotiations between the parties, the situation having clearly resolved itself into a trial of strength. The workers engaged in the strike held meetings early this morning outside the works of the Challenge Phosphate Co.. Ltd.. Otahuhu Kempthorne. Prosser. and Co.'s works. Westfield. and the "NeAV Zealand Farmers' Fertiliser Co.'s works, Te Papapa. Proceedings appeared to be informal and they were very short. At one meeting the remark was made. "We will m^et next Monday." No further statement is forthcoming from the employers, who are believed to have discussed the position today. The employers' attitude appears to be that the next step must come from the union. In the meantime acid plants are being kept going at the Challenge Co.'s works. Otahuhu. by the permanent staff, but this condition does mot apply at the other works affected by the strike. It would take some considerable time to get the acid plants in operation at the other works after any decision was made, to resume.